GRETNA, Va. – A local 101-year-old World War II veteran was finally honored with service medals earlier today. Gretna native ...

Merchant marines salute each other as they walk to class at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, on Aug. 1, 2016. (Yana Paskova/The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

USMMA received 1,700 applications this year, but only accepted 280 appointees. Despite the odds, two friends from the Coast ...

South Korean shipowner Sinokor Merchant Marine has firmed up a KRW 834.8bn ($611.1m) order for a quartet of scrubber-fitted ...

Created in 1938, the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps moved to the Merchant Marine Academy's current location in Kings Point, N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, in 1943.

WASHINGTON – The US Merchant Marine Academy canceled its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Friday – two days after The Post broke the story of its ongoing denial of all exemption requests from ...

THIS year the United States expects to build over four times as many ships as were launched by all the countries of the world in 1938, when shipbuilding was at a 17-year peak. By the end of the war ...

During World War II, approximately 250,000 mariners served, with nearly 10,000 losing their lives—a higher per capita casualty rate than had any branch of the armed services.

One day after the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduated its class of 2025, the Department of Transportation announced that academy superintendent Vice Adm. Joanna M. Nunan and deputy superintendent R ...

May 15 (UPI) --A historic painting that formerly was displayed at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., will be on display once again. "We are moving Jesus out of the basement," U ...

The grueling schedule has taken a toll on civilian mariners, many of whom have opted to leave the service, Sal Mercogliano, an adjunct professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy who has served ...